Mitigating extreme water supply contamination in bushfire burned catchments

减轻丛林大火烧毁流域的极端供水污染

• 批准号: LP150100654
• 负责人: A/Prof Gary Sheridan
• 金额: $ 21.54万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-03-04 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP150100654
• 关键词: Mitigating; extreme; water; supply; contamination

This project involves Melbourne Water, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and East Gippsland Water in developing tools to evaluate mitigation options that will protect our water supplies and increase the resilience of Australian communities to bushfire. Major bushfires in south-east Australia in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2013 were followed by storms that triggered extreme soil erosion events in catchments, contaminating water supplies and damaging critical infrastructure. The capacity to mitigate the risk of interruption to the water supplies of our cities and towns in a more fire-prone future is currently limited by our knowledge of where, why, and how often these post-fire contamination events will occur. This project aims to address these knowledge gaps.

该项目涉及墨尔本水务公司、环境和初级产业部以及东吉普斯兰水务公司开发工具，以评估缓解方案，这些方案将保护我们的供水，并提高澳大利亚社区对山火的抵御能力。2003年、2007年、2009年和2013年，澳大利亚东南部发生了严重的山火，随后又发生了风暴，引发了集水区的极端土壤侵蚀事件，污染了供水，破坏了关键基础设施。在未来更容易发生火灾的情况下，减轻城市和城镇供水中断风险的能力目前受到我们对这些火灾后污染事件发生地点、原因和频率的了解的限制。该项目旨在弥补这些知识差距。